Building the City of Spectacle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building the City of Spectacle write by Costas Spirou. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Building the City of Spectacle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty-two years at the helm of Chicago's City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the city’s history. Richard M. Daley was the son of the legendary machine boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley, who had presided over the city during the post–World War II urban crisis. Richard M. Daley led a period of economic restructuring after that difficult era by building a vibrant tourist economy. Costas Spirou and Dennis R. Judd focus on Richard M. Daley’s role in transforming Chicago’s economy and urban culture.The construction of the "city of spectacle" required that Daley deploy leadership and vision to remake Chicago’s image and physical infrastructure. He gained the resources and political power necessary for supporting an aggressive program of construction that focused on signature projects along the city’s lakefront, including especially Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Museum Campus, Northerly Island, Soldier Field, and two major expansions of McCormick Place, the city’s convention center. During this period Daley also presided over major residential construction in the Loop and in the surrounding neighborhoods, devoted millions of dollars to beautification efforts across the city, and increased the number of summer festivals and events across Grant Park. As a result of all these initiatives, the number of tourists visiting Chicago skyrocketed during the Daley years.Daley has been harshly criticized in some quarters for building a tourist-oriented economy and infrastructure at the expense of other priorities. Daley left his successor, Rahm Emanuel, with serious issues involving a long-standing pattern of police malfeasance, underfunded and uneven schools, inadequate housing opportunities, and intractable budgetary crises. Nevertheless, Spirou and Judd conclude, because Daley helped transform Chicago into a leading global city with an exceptional urban culture, he also left a positive imprint on the city that will endure for decades to come.
The Age of Spectacle
The Age of Spectacle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Spectacle write by Tom Dyckhoff. This book was released on 2017-04-20. The Age of Spectacle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon 'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren Laverne In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing ‘bizarre’ new buildings in wacky shapes and colours. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single ‘iconic’ structure – with the hope of single-handedly transforming the region’s ailing fortunes. These incidents are all part of the same story: the rise of the age of spectacle. Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious – and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and cities’ inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and commercial power-grabs. Timely, passionate and bursting with new ideas, The Age of Spectacle is both an examination of how twenty-first century cities work, and a manifesto for a radically new kind of urbanism. Our cities, Dyckhoff shows, can thrive in the age of spectacle – but only if they engage us not just with dazzling structures, but by responding to the needs of the people who inhabit them. 'Engaging . . . The “iconic” building is the most obvious architectural phenomenon of our age yet, somehow, no one has quite done what Tom Dyckhoff does with The Age of Spectacle, which is to tell its story clearly and plainly.' Rowan Moore, Observer 'First class. Finally, a book that nails the iconic movement – Tom Dyckhoff’s The Age of Spectacle is the book that I wish I had written.' Simon Jenkins 'Unusually accessible [and] well argued.' Evening Standard
(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600
(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 write by Douglas R. Underwood. This book was released on 2019-04-09. (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.
Terror and Wonder
Terror and Wonder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror and Wonder write by Blair Kamin. This book was released on 2011-11. Terror and Wonder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
The Geopolitics of Spectacle
The Geopolitics of Spectacle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geopolitics of Spectacle write by Natalie Koch. This book was released on 2018-06-15. The Geopolitics of Spectacle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Develops a geographic approach to the politics of spectacle and its unspectacular Others through examining recent spectacular capital city development projects in seven authoritarian, resource-rich states of Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Asia"--
